This server should be on fire

Sometimes users run scripts without checking the parameters first, often recycling scripts they’ve used elsewhere, at former jobs or at other institutes. Sometimes this works out, sometimes it doesn’t…

With a load of ~75 and 32 physical cores, the CPU usage on this server is oversubscribed 2.3 times a “normal” 100% load (where 100% of 32 CPUs would be a load of 32.0). Luckily nobody else is using it right now!

The job in question is the highly-parallelizable blastx; a sequence search/alignment tool used by Bioinformaticians to determine if a given protein sequence matches proteins for a known nucleotide coding region.